id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc
98,./configure doesn't fully respect --prefix,zooko,,"I tried to follow these instructions to install the Haskell platform on my Linux system. I have a policy that packages do not get to run an installer with sudo power -- instead I use GNU stow to symlink a package into the system after it has installed itself into a specific {{{--prefix}}} which is just for that one package.
The unix src bundle seems to be not fully prespecting the {{{--prefix}}} option to {{{./configure}}}:
{{{
wget http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2009.2.0.2/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2.tar.gz
tar -xzf haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2.tar.gz
cd haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2
make
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/stow/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2
sudo chown `whoami` /usr/local/stow/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2
make install
}}}
This fails with:
{{{
scripts/install.sh
Installing mtl-1.1.0.2...
Installing library in
/usr/local/stow/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.2/lib/mtl-1.1.0.2/ghc-6.10.4
Writing package registration file: mtl-1.1.0.2.conf for mtl-1.1.0.2...
Reading package info from ""mtl-1.1.0.2.conf"" ... done.
Writing new package config file... ghc-pkg: /var/lib/ghc-6.10.4/./package.conf: you don't have permission to modify this file
Error:
Registering the package mtl-1.1.0.2 failed
make: *** [install] Error 2
}}}
Is there a different {{{./configure}}} option I could use to tell it to use a different location of {{{package.conf}}}? In any case, it seems like the location of that file, like all files, should be controlled by {{{--prefix}}}.
Thanks!
",defect,closed,major,,(none-specified),wontfix,packaging,